Paint for roofing



106. COMPOSITIONS,

COATING OR PLASTIC.

' zen of the United States, resident at Goshen,

. and exact description of the same.

v hydraulic lime.

UNITED STATES Cross Reference I PATENT. OFFICE.

GEORGE J. CLINE, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA.

P INT FOR ROOFIN SPEOIFLCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,978, dated February 21, 1882.

Application filed November 19, 1881. (No specimens.)

To all whom-it may concern- Be it known that l, GEORGE J. CLINE, a citiin the countyiif Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in'Paints for Roofs, &c.; and I do here-- by declare that the following is a full, clear,

This invention has relation to water-proof paintsfor walls, roofing, and other exposed surfaces; and it consists in the paint compounded of coal-tar, silicate of soda, alkali and water-lime, ilm t 1 Hi a maII quanti yo as he tum as hereina ter set forth.

The pain'f'igmsed of the following ingredients in the proportions stated: coal-tar, sixty per cgnt; sillilcateuoflsoda, fifteen per cent; qotgs ,or -ot er a 'ai, -two.per cent;

pu lizdran no line, sixteen per cent; lasphaltum, seven per een A little variation in these proportions will not afl'ect the quality of the paint. .It can be made thicker by adding more' water-lime or In preparing the paint the coal-tar is heated and then the silicate of soda and alkali are added. When these are dissolved the waterlime and asphaltnm are added. The thickness of the paint depends mainly on the proportion ofwater-lime employed.

This composition forms a neat black paint having, when dry, a fine polished or glossy snrface.

hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE J. ULINE.

Witnesses:

J o. H. DEFREES, J r., MYRON E. MEADER. 

